Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights "is dedicated to advancing the human rights movement through providing innovative support to courageous human rights defenders around the world. Through long-term partnerships and cutting edge methods, we assist advocates who have won the RFK Human Rights Award to boldly confront injustice in support of human freedom. We support investigative journalists and authors who bring light to injustice and encourage the human rights movement through the RFK Book and Journalism Awards. Our Speak Truth to Power program educates the public on the value of the human rights and the courage of its defenders." 


 * NGO Advisory Council, Fair Labor Association


 * 2000-01 Director, Stephen Rickard

Staff (2010)
Executive Office


 * Lynn Delaney - Executive Director


 * Monika Kalra Varma - Director
 * Jeffrey R. Buchanan - Communications Officer
 * Fernanda Katz Ellenberg - Advocacy Associate
 * Marselha Gonçalves Margerin - Advocacy Director
 * Sushetha Gopallawa - Advocacy Director
 * Salvador Sarmiento - Legal Officer
 * Boi-Tia Stevens - Senior Advocacy Officer

Speak Truth to Power
 * John Heffernan - Director, Speak Truth to Power
 * Kerry Kennedy

Staff
Executive Office:
 * Lynn Delaney, Executive Director

Center for Human Rights: Source
 * Monika Kalra Varma, Acting Director
 * Sushetha Gopallawa, Senior Program Officer
 * Marselha Goncalves Margerin, Program Officer
 * Amanda Shanor, Program Officer
 * Jeffrey Buchanan, Communications and IT Officer

Directors
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 * Philip W. Johnston, Philip W. Johnston Associates
 * John C. Baldwin, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
 * Harry Belafonte, Activist, Entertainer
 * Gregory Craig, Williams & Connolly
 * Peter Edelman, Georgetown University
 * Mark E. Freitas, Frank Crystal & Co.
 * Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America
 * Danny Glover, Activist, Entertainer
 * Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, U.S. Senate
 * Kerry Kennedy, Founder, RFK Center for Human Rights
 * Robert Kennedy, Founder
 * Hon. John R. Lewis, U.S. House of Representatives
 * Dennis M. Mathisen, Marshall BankFirst Corp
 * Frederic H. Mayerson, The Walnut Group
 * Michael Posner, Human Rights First
 * Marvin S. Rosen, Fusion Telecommunications International
 * Dean W. Rudoy
 * Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey Sachs Associates
 * W. Dean Smith, Capital Guardian Trust Company
 * David F. Stein, The Stein Group
 * Elizabeth Stevens
 * Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
 * Hon. William J. vanden Heuvel, Allen & Company
 * David Wang
 * Anthony Williams, Coudert Brothers

Contact

 * Web: http://www.rfkmemorial.org

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 * Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award